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Corruption is usually viewed as an impediment to investment and growth. However, China's experience suggests that the … development. But since the start of a far-reaching anti-corruption war, they have stopped doing their job and as a consequence …, investment is delayed and the economy takes a hit. This paper examines the relationship between corruption and public …
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We examine the roots of variation in corruption across societies, and we argue that marriage practices and family … structure are an important, overlooked determinant of corruption. By shaping patterns of relatedness and interaction, marriage … encourages favoritism and corruption. Out-marriage creates a relatively open society with increased interaction between non …
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A number of recent studies for Latin America show that as the size of the informal economy grows, corruption is less … corruption, inequality and shadow economies are considerably large. We use Panel Least Square and Fixed Effects Models for Asia … to find that both Corruption Perception Index and ICRG index are sensitive to a number of important macroeconomic …
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A number of recent studies for Latin America show that as the size of the informal economy grows, corruption is less … corruption, inequality and shadow economies are considerably large. We use Panel Least Square and Fixed Effects Models for Asia … to find that both "Corruption Perception Index" and "ICRG" index are sensitive to a number of important macroeconomic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009683262
A number of recent studies for Latin America show that as the size of the informal economy grows, corruption is less … corruption, inequality and shadow economies are considerably large. We use Panel Least Square and Fixed Effects Models for Asia … to find that both 'Corruption Perception Index' and 'ICRG' index are sensitive to a number of important macroeconomic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088661
This paper investigates the causal effect of corruption on entrepreneurship. We use staggered anti-corruption … investigations in China as exogenous shocks to conduct difference-in-differences estimation, and find that the country's anti-corruption … anti-corruption campaign: reduced rent seeking, improved government quality, technology spillover from innovation, and the …
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This paper argues for a model of a corruption constraint on organizational growth and development in the form of a … business ethics glass ceiling. Although the problem of corruption‘s negative impact on economic growth is well documented, this … paper‘s contribution is to propose a cohesive model to show how corruption combines with other influences such as weak …
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Standard anticorruption interventions consist of intensified monitoring and sanctioning. Rooted in principal-agent theory, these interventions are based on the assumption that corrupt acts follow a rational cost-benefit calculation by gain-seeking individuals. Given their mixed results, however,...
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conduct a natural experiment that avoids endogeneity, we identify 23 corruption scandals involving high-level government … persist even if we only focus on the connected firms that were not directly involved in the corruption cases. The relative … are efficient firms and that corruption does not thus result in capital misallocation, but fail to find evidence to …
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In a public procurement setting, we discuss the desirability of completing contracts with state-contingent clauses providing for monetary compensations to the contractor when revenue shocks occur. Realized shocks are private information of the contractor and this creates agency costs of...
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